Though it only lasted for two seasons, David Lynch's shockingly original TV drama TWIN PEAKS forever changed the face of primetime television.He’s supposed to “see something,” and apparently people have before, but he hasn’t yet and can’t talk about it. While she’s amazed by the glass box setup, he admits that he doesn’t know what it does–he just took the job as a gig. He rolls up to a wooden cabin where he promptly beats up a stooge standing guard and leaves hauling off two younger drifters, Ray and Daria.īack in New York City, Tracy arrives at the strange building again with lattes, but the security guard is gone, so her suitor lets her in for a while. He’s leathery and tan, with long hair and a leather jacket, and he’s clearly on a mission. Same old, same old.Įlsewhere, driving on a dark winding forest road is the Dale Cooper inhabited by Bob (let’s call him Host Cooper). Jacoby gets a big delivery of shovels to his trailer Benjamin Horne has hired Beverly (new-to-show Ashley Judd) as his new assistant at the hotel and gets a visit from his druggie brother Jerry, who asks if he’s sleeping with his recent hire yet and at the sheriff’s office, someone looking for Sheriff Truman gets soundly confused by kooky secretary Lucy Moran (Kimmy Robertson). The Giant tells him to “listen to the sounds,” and, “It all cannot be said aloud now.” Mmkay.īack in Twin Peaks, Dr. Various personalities from the original appear and tell him cryptic pieces of advice, basically all alluding to the fact that Bob–the demonic entity that originally possessed Leland Palmer and made him kill his daughter Laura-is in the real world using Cooper’s body. Dale Cooper ( Kyle MacLachlan, who has aged well) has seemingly been trapped here for the last quarter century. Or were there always two?”Īfter a prelude taken from the original series-Laura Palmer’s now-prescient promise to Special Agent Dale Cooper, “I’ll see you again in 25 years”-the season opens in the Red Room, which feels appropriate. Or as the Log Lady said, “Where there was once one, there are now two. Still, it’s part of a clear recipe in prestige TV, from Fargo to I Love Dick, of taking original material and swelling its world to fit the ever-expanding storylines and scope essential to an episodic series. (Nb: What, if any, did the network notes look like on this? “Maybe make Red Room… less completely absurd and foreboding of unspeakable doom? BTW: What is Red Room? Necessary?” The more likely version: “Uh. So basically, it’s a wild ride for fans of the show and completely nonsensical to anyone else. It’s as if the most confusing plot elements of the original Twin Peaks have been dialed up to 100 and let loose on the rest of America.
But with its multiple storylines, disposable characters, and moody, self-serious black humor, it feels spiritually much more akin to David Lynch’s films like Mulholland Drive, also originally meant to be a TV series. The small-town hijinks and camp of the original don’t feature so heavily in this reboot, though-don’t get me wrong-this one has its camp moments, too. The kick-off for season three takes us through four different, but interconnected, storylines, only one of which takes places Twin Peaks, while the other three take place in South Dakota, New York, and the famous Red Room at the Black Lodge in its strange limbo world. The first episode of what is technically the third season of the cult 90’s show on Showtime leaves more questions than answers (what else did you expect?) and sees the strange world of the original newly expanded.
Well, Twin Peaks fans, I don’t think we’re in Twin Peaks anymore.